Usually means: Excite enthusiasm for something greatly.
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  1. hype up: Vocabulary.com
  2. hype up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. hype up: Wiktionary
  4. hype up: Dictionary.com
  5. hype up: Rhymezone
  6. hype up: FreeDictionary.org
  7. hype up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. hype up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. hype up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Hype-up, hype up: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hype up)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To talk up; to promote extravagantly.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To get worked up; to become emotional or intense.

Similar:
psych up, overhype, outhype, overpromote, puff, overpraise, hyperbolize, overtalk, boast, Barnumize, more...

Opposite:
downplay, understate, diminish, minimize, de-emphasize

Phrases:
to hype something up, hype yourself up, hype someone up, more...

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Similar:
psych up, overhype, outhype, overpromote, puff, overpraise, hyperbolize, overtalk, boast, Barnumize, more...

Opposite:
downplay, understate, diminish, minimize, de-emphasize

Phrases:
to hype something up, hype yourself up, hype someone up, more...



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